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==Examples== * "Who shall '''watch''' the '''watchmen''' themselves?" (''Quis '''custodiet''' ipsos '''custodes'''?'') — [[Juvenal]] * "Thou art of '''blood''', joy not to make things '''bleed'''." — [[Sir Philip Sidney]] * "With eager '''feeding''' '''food''' doth choke the '''feeder'''." — [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'' II,i,37 * "The Greeks are '''strong''', and '''skillful''' to their '''strength''' / '''Fierce''' to their '''skill''', and to their '''fierceness''' valiant" — [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'' I, i, 7-8 * "Love is not love / Which '''alters''' when it '''alteration''' finds / Or bends with the '''remover''' to '''remove'''." — [[William Shakespeare]], [[Sonnet 116]] * "The greatest '''weakness''' of all '''weaknesses''' is to fear too much to appear '''weak'''." — [[Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet]] * "Do not listen to the '''reasoners'''; there has been too much '''reasoning''' in France, and '''reasoning''' has banished '''reason'''." — [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''[[Considerations on France]]'', criticizing the [[Cult of Reason]] during the French Revolution * "People complain of the '''despotism''' of princes; they ought to complain of the '''despotism''' of ''man''. We are all born '''despots'''." — [[Joseph de Maistre]], ''Against Rousseau'' * "Deep into that darkness peering / Long I stood there wondering, fearing / Doubting, '''dreaming dreams''' no mortal ever dared to '''dream''' before." — [[Edgar Allan Poe]], ''[[The Raven]]'' * "The '''expropriators''' are '''expropriated'''." — [[Karl Marx]], ''[[Das Kapital]]'' * "To be '''ignorant''' of one’s '''ignorance''' is the malady of the '''ignorant'''." — [[Amos Bronson Alcott]] * "'''Diamond''' me no '''diamonds''', '''prize''' me no '''prizes'''…" — [[Alfred, Lord Tennyson]], ''Lancelot and Elaine'' * "'''Absolute''' power corrupts '''absolutely'''." — [[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] * "If we lose our sanity, we can but '''howl''' the lugubrious '''howl''' of idiots, the '''howl''' of the utterly lost '''howling''' their nowhereness." — [[D. H. Lawrence]] * "The healthy man does not '''torture''' others—generally it is the '''tortured''' who turn into '''torturers'''." — [[Carl Jung]] * "There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing / No end to the '''withering''' of '''withered''' flowers / To the movement of '''pain''' that is '''painless''' and motionless / To the '''drift''' of the sea and the '''drifting''' wreckage / The bone’s '''prayer''' to Death its God. Only the hardly, barely '''prayable''' / '''Prayer''' of the one Annunciation." — [[T. S. Eliot]], ''[[The Dry Salvages]]'' * "Love is an '''irresistible desire''' to be '''irresistibly desired'''." — [[Robert Frost]] * "Not as a call to '''battle''', though '''embattled''' we are." — [[John F. Kennedy]], ''Inaugural Address'', January 20, 1961. * "The young are generally full of '''revolt''', and are often pretty '''revolting''' about it." — [[Mignon McLaughlin]] * "What was done to me was '''monstrous'''. And they created a '''monster'''." — [[V (character)|V]] in ''[[V for Vendetta (film)|V for Vendetta]]'' * "'''Secrets''' aren't '''secret'''. They're just hidden treasures, waiting to be exploited." — [[Stephen White (author)|Stephen White]], ''Dry Ice'' * "I am a '''disciple''' of '''discipline'''!" — [[David Goggins]] * "Can’t explain all the '''feelings''' that you’re making me '''feel'''." — [[The Darkness (band)|The Darkness]], ''[[I Believe in a Thing Called Love]]''
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